Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 08:27:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? Message-ID: <199804060627.IAA01733@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <25532.891848191@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 6, 98 00:36:12 am
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> > Hm... does anyone have a sense of what the lifetime of 2.2.x is? > > I'm just thinking if it took someone half a year, and 2.2.x would be > > dead in 9 months (e.g.), then it wouldn't really be that worthwhile. > > It's impossible to say for sure, given that such things are driven > more by user demand than by any deliberate plan, but I suspect that we > won't see 2.2.x run much longer than November 1998, after which it > will go very much into legacy support mode. "legacy support mode" sounds as "dead" to me... the question is if next stable release will be 3.0 (i.e. including SMP, as I understand it) or something called 2.3 Having not followed much 3.0 development (and perhaps others have the same problem) I cannot really say what are the significant differences between 2.2.X and 3.0 and what could be backported. Can you make a short list of the most important differences and a rough indication of the stability of each item and difficulty in porting things back to 2.X ? What I know (might be completely wrong) is the following item stability backport --------------------------------------------------------------------- CAM good ? feasible ? SMP ?? hard softupdates not yet hard cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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